About Us

Kate Betts set up Capital B Media (formerly Kate Betts Media) in 2006 to help organisations deal with the press. She specialises in crisis media management and is an associate trainer at the Cabinet Office-approved Emergency Planning College and for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Kate's journalistic experience includes working as a researcher, producer, reporter and news editor for the BBC and a reporter for commercial television. She has also worked as a press officer for a large local authority and a reporter for a regional daily paper. Kate is also a BBC-trained video-journalist and has made features for BBC Radio 4, including a documentary looking at the lives of the South Yorkshire flood victims. She has taught print and broadcast journalism at the University of Sheffield Journalism Department.

Steph Pollard is an account manager with Capital B Media. She has years of experience in regional newspapers and worked as a communications and press office manager for the Department of Health and in local government. Leading on strategic communications planning across organisations, she is a champion of good, effective communication with all stakeholders. Steph has written publications and public information campaigns covering economic development, culture, health and community issues. She has also managed a creative business networking programme in South Yorkshire.

Joshua Nutt is a junior account executive with Capital B Media. He studied journalism at the University of Huddersfield where as part of his project, he completed an undergraduate role as a communications officer at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, where he wrote press releases and created a video for the Town Hall's 80th birthday celebrations that was displayed in the council chamber. He also created a case-study looking into the magazine and newspaper platform jump from print to online as part of his final year university project. As well as this, Joshua has touched on many different aspects of journalism in his university life including public relations, design, video, writing for magazines and newspapers.

Sally Brown is an account manager with Capital B Media. She has over 30 years of PR and marketing experience including local authority communications, private sector and third sector PR, marketing, project management and fundraising. As former head of communications for Arts Council England's Yorkshire Office she led on regional communications, including conference and event management. Since 2003 she has worked as a freelance PR consultant, fundraiser and project manager with an emphasis on raising the profile of a range of key regional arts companies and festivals.

Deborah Wain is an associate writer at Capital B Media. She is an experienced and award-winning journalist, and is a regular contributor of health features to the ‘Get Up and Go’ lifestyle supplement distributed with the Sunday Telegraph. She devised and wrote an on-line soap opera for the NHS, which was runner up in the Best Use of New Media category in the Communicate09 awards. In 2007 Deborah was named joint recipient of the prestigious Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism run by Private Eye and the Guardian. She is also a former Yorkshire Press Awards winner. In addition, Deborah has written drama for the stage and television. She has had two plays broadcast on Radio 4 and is currently working on a series of plays for the BBC station.

Matt Robson, a freelance cameraman, editor and film-maker, is an associate at Capital B Media. His credits include Life of Grime, Newsnight and Look North. As well as doing media training, Matt is experienced at producing films for websites and promotional DVDs.

Cameraman and photographer Antony Oxley is an associate at Capital B Media. He has worked for Yorkshire Television and Sky News, covering major stories ranging from floods and fires to political storms and personal tragedies. His assignments included the Soham murders, the Selby train crash and the Harold Shipman case. He also covers top football matches for Sky Sports and BBC Sport. As well as media training, he works as a stills photographer, with clients ranging from Meadowhall Shopping Centre to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Mary Murtagh is an associate at Capital B Media. She is an award-winning print and video journalist who spent 12 years working for some of the biggest regional papers in the UK. For the past five years Mary has been a specialist print, radio and television media trainer for the private and public sector. She has trained everyone from neighbourhood police officers to NATO admirals.

She also works as a public relations consultant and copywriter.

Ben Rooth is an associate at Capital B Media. He is an award-winning journalist, who has media-trained the chief executives of major international companies and senior Whitehall policymakers - among many other clients. After graduating with an MA degree in journalism, he subsequently worked across TV, radio and print. Ben's career has seen him reporting from war zones - including Afghanistan - and interviewing everyone from prime ministers to David Attenborough and Alan Whicker, to the CEOs of FTSE 100-listed companies. In addition to working as a media trainer, he continues to work as a business journalist as well as a copywriter and PR on behalf of big businesses and large charities.

Kathryn Reaney, a former television presenter,is an associate media trainer at Capital B Media. Kathryn has wide experience in radio, television and newspapers. She has been a reporter and presenter for Yorkshire Television's Calendar News; an assistant producer on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; a reporter and producer for BBC local radio and a district news editor for an evening paper.